Flight Test Engineer / Test Director

Modern Technology Solutions Inc•Las Vegas, NV

1d•Onsite

About The Position

MTSI is seeking a Flight Test Engineer/Test Director to support aircraft system and subsystems testing. This role involves working closely with customers to plan, execute, and report on ground and flight test events. The position requires designing test events to gather necessary data, developing test objectives, data requirements, and go/no-go criteria. Responsibilities include reviewing aircraft specifications, ensuring proper data collection and analysis, executing safe and effective test events, and collaborating with data analysts to produce executive-level reports. The role also demands making quick decisions during test missions, directing real-time aircraft corrections, coordinating with the test team, and conducting mission debriefs. Support for creating test engineering documentation is also a key aspect. The position is located in Las Vegas, with up to 10% travel required, and requires the ability to work in a remote environment with a highly motivated team.

Requirements

Bachelor and/or Master of Science (Aeronautical/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Math, Computer Science or Physics)
Minimum of 10+ years of flight test experience
Have a "Team" mentality towards providing integrated engineering support for design reviews, test planning working groups, test card preparation, disciplined test execution, and collaborate/author on post-flight reports
Work well in a team environment as well as independently and have above average communication and writing skills
Excellent communication, organization, analytical, and leadership skills, attention to detail
Position requires willingness to accept changing and evolving roles & responsibilities in support of customers’ requirements and needs.
Positive attitude, self-starter and an ability to work with little supervision
Current TS/SCI clearance required
U.S. Citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

USAF / Navy Test Pilot School Graduate (Pilot, NAV, or Engineer)
Mission Control Room experience directing ground / flight test events while monitoring performance parameters
Experience with Electronic Warfare testing
Experience in coordinating and executing tests on various government open air test ranges
Experience with "modeling houses" (e.g., MIT/LL, JHU/APL, GTRI, EZJA, etc) to reconcile differences between predicted and actual system performance
Experience with data analysis tools (MATLAB, Python, etc)

Responsibilities

Work with customers to plan, execute, and report on ground and flight test events
Work with customers to plan and design test events to obtain necessary data to address flight test objectives
Develop technically adequate test objectives, data requirements, data collection methodologies and go/no-go criteria to inform strategic platform requirements and modeling and simulation needs
Perform reviews of aircraft specification requirements to ensure the data management and analysis plan (DMAP) provides proper data collection for real-time and post-mission data processing and evaluation
Execute safe, secure, effective, and efficient flight test events
Collaborate with data analysts to oversee the data analysis process and build actionable executive-level test reports.
Make quick decisions during test missions, direct real-time aircraft corrections, and coordinate rapidly with test team members to adjust the mission flow as necessary to meet mission data collection goals
Conduct thorough mission debriefs to ensure all relevant mission events are understood and to identify lessons learned to be applied to future missions
Assist in data analysis and review as required to facilitate correct interpretation of the mission data.
Support the creation of test engineering documentation: Test plans, Safety Packages, Data Analysis Management Plans, Technical Review Board Briefs, Safety Review Board Briefs, Test Readiness Briefs, Test Cards, and Test Reports
Capable and willing to work in a remote environment with a highly motivated team.